Oscar Wilde

With the exception of the Poems in Prose this volume does not contain anything which the author ever contemplated reprinting. The Rise of Historical Criticism is interesting to admirers of his work, however, because it shows the development of his style and the wide intellectual range distinguishing the least born of all the late Victorian writers, with the possible exception of Ruskin. It belongs to Wilde's Oxford days when he was the unsuccessful competitor for the Chancellor's English Essay Prize. Perhaps Magdalen, which has never forgiven herself for nurturing the author of Ravenna, may be felicitated on having escaped the further intolerable honour that she might have suffered by seeing crowned again with paltry academic parsley the most highly gifted of all her children in the last century.

UNE EDITION INTEGRALE D'EXCEPTION / EXCEPTIONAL UNABRIDGED EDITION Le portrait de Dorian Gray / The picture of Dorian Gray Bilingue fran ais/anglais / Bilingual French/English Jeune homme na f et tr s s duisant, Dorian Gray vend son me pour s'assurer jeunesse ternelle et beaut ind fectible... Le Portrait de Dorian Gray est l'unique roman d'Oscar Wilde. Il explore, travers un r cit blouissant, les liens entretenus par la beaut , la d cadence et la duplicit . Cette dition int grale est bilingue: les textes fran ais et anglais sont en parall le chaque page, pour vous permettre de savourer pleinement le chef-d'oeuvre d'Oscar Wilde. A naive and irresistible young man, Dorian Gray, sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty... The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's only novel. It explores, through a dazzling tale, the links between beauty, decadence and duplicity. Enjoy Oscar Wilde's masterpiece in two languages thanks to this bilingual unabridged edition, where french and english texts are in parallel all along the book. Retrouvez d'autres chefs-d'oeuvre en dition bilingue chez Atlantic Editions / Find other masterpieces in bilingual edition by Atlantic Editions: Alice au Pays des Merveilles / Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Fully illustrated edition, ISBN 978-1534683914 Le fant me de Canterville et autres nouvelles / The Canterville ghost and other stories ISBN 978-1547273324 L' le au tr sor / Treasure island ISBN 978-1548701987 Rom o et Juliette / Romeo and Juliet ISBN 978-1977766243 Hamlet ISBN 978-1981446803 Macbeth ISBN 978-1984218247 Les aventures de Tom Sawyer / Adventures of Tom Sawyer ISBN 978-1548501105 Le Chien des Baskerville / The Hound of the Baskervilles ISBN 978-1986213615 (c) Atlantic Editions

An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of twenty-four hours." Sooner or later," Wilde notes, "we shall all have to pay for what we do." But he adds that, "No one should be entirely judged by their past." Together with The Importance of Being Earnest, it is often considered Wilde's dramatic masterpiece. After Earnest, it is his most popularly produced play.

The play opens during a dinner party at the home of Sir Robert Chiltern in London's fashionable Grosvenor Square. Sir Robert, a prestigious member of the House of Commons, and his wife, Lady Chiltern, are hosting a gathering that includes his friend Lord Goring, a dandified bachelor and close friend to the Chilterns, Mabel Chiltern, and other genteel guests. During the party, Mrs. Cheveley, an enemy of Lady Chiltern's from their school days, attempts to blackmail Sir Robert into supporting a fraudulent scheme to build a canal in Argentina. Apparently, Mrs. Cheveley's dead mentor and lover, Baron Arnheim, convinced the young Sir Robert to sell him a Cabinet secret, a secret that suggested he buy stocks in the Suez Canal three days before the British government announced its purchase. Sir Robert made his fortune with that illicit money, and Mrs. Cheveley has the letter to prove his crime. Fearing the ruin of both career and marriage, Sir Robert submits to her demands. When Mrs. Cheveley pointedly informs Lady Chiltern of Sir Robert's change of heart regarding the canal scheme, the morally inflexible Lady Chiltern, unaware of both her husband's past and the blackmail plot, insists that Sir Robert renege on his promise. For Lady Chiltern, their marriage is predicated on her having an "ideal husband"-that is, a model spouse in both private and public life that she can worship: thus Sir Robert must remain unimpeachable in all his decisions. Sir Robert complies with the lady's wishes and apparently seals his doom. Also toward the end of Act I, Mabel and Lord Goring come upon a diamond brooch that Lord Goring gave someone many years ago. Goring takes the brooch and asks that Mabel inform him if anyone comes to retrieve it. In the second act, which also takes place at Sir Robert's house, Lord Goring urges Sir Robert to fight Mrs. Cheveley and admit his guilt to his wife. He also reveals that he and Mrs. Cheveley were formerly engaged. After finishing his conversation with Sir Robert, Goring engages in flirtatious banter with Mabel. He also takes Lady Chiltern aside and obliquely urges her to be less morally inflexible and more forgiving. Once Goring leaves, Mrs. Cheveley appears, unexpected, in search of a brooch she lost the previous evening. Incensed at Sir Robert's reneging on his promise, she ultimately exposes Sir Robert to his wife once they are both in the room. Unable to accept a Sir Robert now unmasked, Lady Chiltern then denounces her husband and refuses to forgive him.

Una familia estadounidense adquiere el castillo de Canterville, en un hermoso lugar en la campi a inglesa a siete millas de Ascot, en Inglaterra. Hiram B. Otis se traslada con su familia al castillo, pero Canterville, due o anterior del mismo, le advierte que el fantasma de sir Simon de Canterville anda en el edificio desde hace no menos de trescientos a os despu s de asesinar a su esposa lady Eleonore de Canterville.

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.’ When Basil Hallward paints the portrait of young, handsome Dorian Gray, he falls prey to his dazzling beauty. Afraid that his youth and looks will waste away, Dorian expresses a wish that his portrait, and not he, will age and fade over time. His wish is granted, and over the ensuing years, Dorian indulges in every kind of vice and pleasure, never ageing nor disfiguring. Only his portrait, hidden to the world, bears the marks of his actions, and as his soul grows ever more wasted and corrupted, devastatingconsequences lie in wait. The Picture of Dorian Gray is an exploration of the purpose of art, the superficial nature of youth and beauty, and the conflict between morality and intemperance. First published in its complete, uncensored form in 1891, it is Oscar Wilde’s only novel.

Et tankevekkende eventyr av Oscar Wilde endelig med Rolf Neschs sterke illustrasjoner. Endelig to store kunstnere mellom to permer slik det var planlagt i 1926. Sterk historie for både voksne og barn. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) utga novellen Infantinnens fødselsdag første gang på fransk i 1889. Den eventyrlige og grusomme fortellingen om den 12 år gamle spanske prinsessen Maria Teresas fødselsdagsfeiring er et av Wildes viktigste eventyr og ble snart utgitt på en rekke språk. Wildes ironiske og samfunnskritiske kommentar til forholdt mellom det kunstige og det naturlige, slik han ser det for seg ved det spanske hoff på 1600-tallet, virker stadig sterkt. I 1926 laget den tyske kunstneren Rolf Nesch (1893-1975) 14 grafiske blad på oppdrag for forleggeren Piper for som ville utgi en illustrert utgave av Infantinnens fødselsdag. Nesch flyktet imidlertid i det tyske skjebneåret 1933 til Norge. Her etablerte han seg og fikk stor betydning for utviklingen av norsk grafikk. Men boken kom aldri ut. Eivind Otto Hjelle, redaktør og tidligere leder av NRK-Fjernsynets nyhetsavdeling, har skrevet et informativt etterord. Nesch' illustrasjoner viser den sterk samfunnskritiske historien, som fortsatt har et tankevekkende budskap om menneskelige verdier også i våre dager.

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The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories, "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend", and "The Remarkable Rocket". It is most famous for its title story, "The Happy Prince".

Como en casi todas las obras de Oscar Wilde, en El crimen de Lord Arthur Saville tenemos unas buenas dosis de s tira, iron a, frivolidad, humor y sentido com n. Aunque la trama de la novela sea un delirio de principio a fin (y excusa, en ocasiones, para la diatriba exc ntrica del autor), lo cierto es que se plantean en ella algunas cuestiones muy interesantes acerca del comportamiento humano; si bien expuestas de forma maquiav lica y retorcida; como no pod a ser de otra manera. En este caso, tenemos un estudio bastante original del concepto de responsabilidad: c mo afrontamos nuestros deberes y c mo interpretamos las necesidades seg n nuestros propios intereses.

Si Sir Robert Chiltern es ahora Secretario de Estado de Asuntos Exteriores, es porque ha sabido mantener en secreto el origen de su fortuna: una transacci n fraudulenta por la que vendi secretos de estado al Bar n Arnehim. Toda la alta sociedad inglesa y sus pares de la C mara de los Comunes lo tienen por un hombre respetable e ntegro. S mbolo de la honestidad y la competencia futuro pol tico parece brillante, contando siempre con el respaldo de su esposa, Lady Chiltern, que lo considera el marido ideal. Sin embargo, las apariencias son enga osas y el orden social se basa nicamente en la mentira individual y colectiva. ese brillante porvenir se complica con la aparici n de la se ora Cheveley, "una mujer con un pasado", una mujer cuya reputaci n no es intachable, que somete a chantaje a Sir Robert Chiltern: o bien la ayuda en otra operaci n deshonesta o bien revelar su secreto, provocando un esc ndalo que lo cubrir de infamia. Lady Chiltern no es consciente de este grave error en el pasado de su marido; l teme perder, adem s de su posici n, el amor de su esposa, mujer de estrictos principios morales. De hecho, finalmente ella se entera, porque Robert no cede al chantaje y la se ora Cheveley se apresura a contar a Lady Chiltern lo que sabe. Desesperado y angustiado, Lord Chiltern decide recurrir al consejo de Lord Goring, un viejo y querido amigo. La intervenci n del amigo fiel, pondr en evidencia los tejemanejes de la se ora Chevely y consigue la reconciliaci n del matrimonio.